Photo Courtesy of Patricia McCarty posted on Facebook group The Lawrence Register
December 27, 2017
Thought if someone researching John Herman Asbury b. 1902 in Lawrence County, s/o John Hickman Asbury and Amanda Davenport might be interested in this picture of John Herbert. He is holding my older sister, Sharon Thompson. I think this picture might have been taken in the Dayton, Ohio area, but not sure.
Pioneers & Profiles
Don Rist Collector of Pig Iron
Beginning seven years ago, Don Rist, 20-year-old University of Dayton civil engineering student, and his brother John started collecting specimens
Missing People of the 1800s
Louisville Daily Courier, Louisville, KY 11 June 1845 p2 To the Friends of Humanity. - Truman Guthrie, a tailor by trade, left his widowed mother in November 1843, with a view of being gone but a...
Simeon Sumpter Old River Boat Captain
Simeon Sumpter was born Nov. 24, 1833 in Lawrence County, Ohio, died Jan. 3, 1917 Lawrence County. Married Katherine Brubaker Aug. 7, 1851 Lawrence County, Ohio. Son of Edmund Sumpter and Nancy Snell. Grandson of Richard Sumpter (War of 1812 Ohio Militia) and Isa Smith.
Captain Abraham Smith
Captain Abraham Smith was born in 1831 at Quaker Bottom, near Proctorville, Ohio, and is of English parentage. Up to the age of 17 he assisted his father on his farm, but the quiet life of the old town ill suited the restless temperament of the boy, and he eagerly embraced the offer of a captain o a merchant vessel to go to sea.
Andrew P. and Hannah Hisey Kouns
Photo: Andrew P. and Hannah Hisey Kouns
Commodore Washington Honshell
Capt. Washington Honshell was associated with David Gibson, Hiram Campbell, John Means of Ashland, and others, and this company built the first steamer
Hugh Means
History of Adams County by Stivers - HUGH MEANS - was born October 14, 1812, at Spartanburg, South Carolina, the son of Colonel John Means, who has a separate sketch herein. His mother was Annie...
Thomas W. Means
A telegram to The Enquirer from Ex-Mayor William Means at Ashland, Ky., brings the sad intelligence of the death of his aged father, a man whose
David C. Beaman
David C. Beaman was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, on November 22, 1838, the son of Rev. Gamaliel C. and Amelia (Crichton) Beaman. His father, who was a native of Massachusetts, was a son of David Beaman, a selectman of his town; in youth he was given excellent educational advantages and prepared for college at Amherst Academy, later graduating from Union College, in Schenectady, New York, and 1831 completing the theological course at Andover. [Brother to James L. Beaman]
Obituary of Captain John Kyle
Eureka Insurance Company on Third Street yesterday announced the death of one of the very best-known men on the street, Captain John Kyle
Bodmer-Whitrock Photos
Looking for info on this picture: The negative was in my Grandpa’s things- no one in my family knows for sure . My Grandpa was Austin Everett Bodmer
Ora Hayes
This a picture of my grandmother Ora Hayes. Very very pretty woman. This was taken in the late 1890s. Lawrence County, Ohio Photo Courtesy of Alice Hayes-Haddox
Darling Brothers
Three of these men were born in Ironton, Ohio. My grandfather, Oliver Darling, far right born 1900. To his right with the striped tie is his brother
Caleb Briggs
Dr. Caleb BRIGGS came to Lawrence County from North Rochester, Mass, in 1837. He came here as a member of the State Geological Survey at the head of